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Blake’s Songs of Experience, the antithetical poem to Songs of Innocence, depicts the apocalyptic realities of human beings in the world of experience. And the calamity of the world, Blake clarifies, has come from deep-rooted social injustice which has been enforced to innocent and vulnerable children and grown-ups by the established in the name of religion and reason. In Blake’s poems, the widespread injustice wields its power especially upon the intrinsic vitality of human beings. And poems make it clear that the oppression has become more wretched in parallel with the distance of human beings away from nature with which they had once dwelled in harmony. Consequently, the accomplishment of eco-justice can restore the dwelling place of human beings in nature and recover their inherent properties of, what Blake calls, ‘innocence and experience’. Additionally, the approach to Songs of Experience with eco-justice can make the meaning of the ‘experience’ more explicit. With the help of eco-justice, any constraints surrounding the experience can be eliminated and reveal its genuine quality to be the ‘energetic’ pair to ‘pure’ innocence in the human mind.